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flim-flam
/ˈflɪmflæm/
noun 3
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2PREP.
out
ADV.
carefully
Definitions
noun
1
Misinformation; bunkum; false information presented as true.
Most reports of supernatural occurrences turn out to be flim-flam when carefully investigated.
2
Confidence game, con game.
Those who got the joke understood that all of the city’s talk of ideas and principles was flimflam to conceal self-enrichment at the public’s expense. Those who didn’t, didn’t.
3
Table tennis.
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Most reports of supernatural occurrences turn out to be flim-flam when carefully investigated.
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Those who got the joke understood that all of the city’s talk of ideas and principles was flimflam to conceal self-enrichment at the public’s expense. Those who didn’t, didn’t.
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